Glad your little one is here & you're both home now. Sorry to hear you had such a rough time of it though. If you feel you need help or want to talk about it, now or at a later stage, you can get great support from www.birthtraumaassociation.org.uk/.

We had such a traumatic time due mostly to how DS was lying & after being in slow labour for a few days, my waters were broken & established labour kicked in very quickly.

My pain relief was disregarded by the end, as my midwife was not experienced enough to top it up, as required & the ward was so understaffed that I was left in a lot of pain while a more experienced midwife who was able to attend was located.

Then after 6 hrs, I was examined by 2 doctors & was rushed to theatre to have my baby delivered by emergency forceps.

We're just home, both doing well (he's doing much better than I am) & trying to find our feet.

I've struggled to be patient, however, there are women here who arrived a day before me & are in the same position and worse (one woman has been losing her waters for over 24 hrs & has still not been allocated a delivery suite!).

I mean, yes, something encouraging. But really you must have the patience of a saint bless you. I hope everything kicks off in a mighty way really soon and you have snuggly baby in your arms very quickly

My ELCS was booked for tomorrow. Long story short, arrived for pre op on Friday morning to find a scrappy piece of paper pinned to my notes advising myself & the midwives at the assessment centre that it'd been put back to Wednesday.

As a consequence, and in addition to my health issues, I was offered & accepted a sweep last night & I'm now on my way to be induced!